LA Grows Up: Millennium Hollywood

At a major intersection in Hollywood, KCRW’s Saul Gonzalez talked with Adrian Glick Kudler, editor of Curbed LA, about Millennium Hollywood, a horizontal city going vertical. City Councilman and mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti is opposed. So is the other Hollywood councilman, Tom LaBonge. But the city planning commission — to Mayor Villaraigosa’s applause — has approved more than one million square feet of offices, apartments, condos and retail stores on just five acres of land surrounding the Capitol Records Building. To opponents it’s an “alien implant,” an “eyesore” that’s “disproportionate” to a historic district. But for New York developer and co-founder of Millennium Partners, Phil Aarons it’s part of a much needed new urban core.